Lawyer Profile
Kyle B. Plunkett
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Kyle is Co-Leader of the firm's Banking & Finance and Restructuring & Insolvency Groups and a member of the Financial Services Group. He divides his time between commercial restructuring matters and asset-based lending and structured finance work, developing a broad practice built on providing practical solutions to complex problems. With a diverse background, including time spent working in banking and finance, Kyle has the experience to provide clients guidance beyond the scope of traditional legal advice.
Kyle’s insolvency and restructuring practice encompasses both the litigation and commercial aspects of turnarounds, reorganizations, liquidations, security enforcement, receiverships and plans of arrangement in the context of formal and informal restructuring proceedings. With particular experience in all areas of Canadian insolvency and restructuring proceedings and transactions, Kyle has acted for and advised secured and unsecured creditors, debtor-in-possession lenders, debtors, suppliers, boards of directors, chief restructuring officers, purchasers, receivers, interim receivers, Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act monitors and bankruptcy trustees. He regularly advises parties on issues relating to reorganizations under the CCAA, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Canada Business Corporations Act.
On the corporate and commercial lending side of his practice, Kyle regularly advises and acts for a number of Canada’s largest banks and several alternative asset-based lenders. His lending and finance experience includes asset-based, securitized, structured finance, syndicated, secured, mezzanine and subordinated debt, both domestic and cross-border, transactions.
Kyle is also a member of the firm's Associates Committee and is actively involved in the firm’s student and associate mentorship programs.
Represented Kognitiv, a global company offering intelligent, omnichannel loyalty solutions, in its acquisition by Capillary Technologies, an AI-powered loyalty management company.
Represented an investment management firm in its acquisition of retail assets associated with Canadian retail brands as part of a restructuring matter.
Advised The Toronto-Dominion Bank and CIBC on the structuring and execution of a credit arrangement in relation to AirBoss of America Corp.’s US$180-million senior secured credit facilities.
Successfully represented The Toronto-Dominion Bank before the Ontario Court of Appeal, securing the affirmation of a summary judgment motion ruling in 2275518 Ontario Inc. v. The Toronto-Dominion Bank, 2024 ONCA 343.
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2011 (ON)